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Where CHamoru Identity Continues: The Decolonial Poetics of the CHamoru Diaspora in California

November 14, 2022October 21, 2022 By Francisco Delgado

Prof. Francisco Delgado’s current project examines how Chamorro poets reimagine the landscape of California as an extension of their home island. In particular, through a careful reading of works by Chamorro poets like Clarissa Mendiola and Lehua Taitano, both of whom are currently based out of California, he argues that the nature of Chamorro identity and community is as fluid and vast as the Pacific Ocean itself.

Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

June 13, 2022May 20, 2022 By Alvin Eng

Our Laundry, Our Town (Empire State Editions, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s growing up in Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of that singular universe that was New York City in the 1970s. As a theatre practitioner and professor, Alvin discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s seminal Americana drama, Our Town.

Trying to Find “Chinatown” (Play Reading & Town Hall Discussion)

July 6, 2020April 17, 2019 By AAARI

In honor of Asian Heritage Month, the BMCC Theatre Program presents a 15-minute reading of David Henry Hwang’s play Trying to Find Chinatown, and a Town Hall discussion on “How does Theatre create Community and Identity for Asian Americans and all under-represented voices?”